LEAVE THE GIRLS BEHIND - JACQUELINE BUBLITZ

You can run from your past, but not from the girls left behind.

Nineteen years ago, Ruth-Ann Baker's childhood friend was murdered by convicted killer Ethan Oswald. Haunted by what happened, Ruth has long been convinced Oswald had other victims.


So when Ruth hears that another young girl has gone missing from her hometown, and with Oswald now deceased, she wonders if he had a partner in crime who is still active today.

Crossing the globe from New York to New Zealand in her obsessive search for answers, Ruth is brought perilously close to three different women. The deeper she delves, the more she can't shake the feeling that one of them knows the truth. About her childhood friend. About the missing girl. And, most dangerously of all, about Ruth herself . . .

The acclaimed author of the 'tour de force' (The New York Times Book Review) Before You Knew My Name returns with another taut suspense thriller, overlaid with a moving exploration of the ways in which violent crime ricochets through the lives of those left behind.Â